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Article | 17/02/2011 Google still answering antitrust questions from Texas AG
Google is still working to satisfy a request made by the Texas Attorney General's office last summer for documents and information about its advertisi...
Article | 16/02/2011 Lawmaker reintroduces WikiLeaks prosecution bill
New legislation in the U.S. Congress targets WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for espionage prosecution.
Article | 16/02/2011 Clinton says Internet censorship harmful to governments
Countries that continue to censor the Internet face long-term economic and social costs, with oppression leading to civil unrest and not security, U.S...
Article | 15/02/2011 Huawei refuses U.S. panel's advice to divest from 3Leaf
Chinese network supplier Huawei has declined a U.S. panel's recommendation that it voluntarily divest from a business acquisition that has raised nati...
Article | 15/02/2011 ITU wants government help to avoid mobile bottleneck
Whitespace devices, LTE, femtocells, automatic Wi-Fi handover, optimized backhaul networks: wireless operators are already deploying a wide range of t...
Article | 14/02/2011 Taiwan considers letting China invest in LCD panels
Taiwanese officials are discussing ways to let investors from mainland China buy stakes in the island's LCD panel makers, an economics ministry repres...
Article | 12/02/2011 Lawmaker introduces online do-not-track bill
A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives Friday would create a do-not-track tool giving Internet users the power to prohibit online adve...
Article | 11/02/2011 Report: U.S. panel to recommend reversing Huawei deal
A U.S. committee that overseas foreign investments will likely recommend that President Barack Obama reverse a deal by Chinese network supplier Huawei...
Article | 11/02/2011 Republicans question broadband stimulus program
Two government agencies handing out more than US$7 billion for broadband deployment should reexamine grants to projects that overlap existing broadban...
Article | 10/02/2011 Company in Indian spectrum satellite scam claims clearances
Devas Multimedia, the company at the center of a controversy over satellite spectrum allocation, said on Thursday that it has a legally binding agreem...
Article | 10/02/2011 Speedy broadband deployment pitched to FCC
Broadband deployment can happen faster in the U.S. if government agencies remove some road blocks, several members of the telecom industry told the U....
Article | 9/02/2011 Etisalat distances itself from Indian mobile license scam
Telecommunications operator Etisalat has distanced itself from an alleged scam in the allocation of second-generation (2G) mobile network licenses in ...
Article | 9/02/2011 India arrests top executive of Etisalat joint venture
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the vice-chairman of Etisalat DB Telecom, a mobile services joint venture.
Article | 9/02/2011 No electronic bugs behind Toyota sticky pedals
After 10 months of study and the assistance of NASA engineers, the U.S. Department of Transportation has concluded that the unintended acceleration th...
Article | 9/02/2011 FCC moves to redirect phone subsidies to broadband
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission took a major step Tuesday toward ending subsidies for traditional telephone service in rural areas and redi...